It's been a hard day's night.

Do you ever have those moments where you pull something out of the depths of your wardrobe, put it on and suddenly see it in a whole new light? That happened to me recently with almost this entire outfit!

I bought the Beatles tshirt about three years ago on a trip to Liverpool after I sat my GCSEs (oh God, that makes me feel old!), and wore it quite a lot in my tshirt-and-trousers stage. The cardigan too was lurking in the back of my cupboards, I bought it from ebay a year two years some time ago, but haven't worn it recently. I came across these two pieces as I was sorting out my drawers, and decided to put them on, and soon a whole outfit had fallen into place, along with these white fishnet/herringbone tights I have had for ages!

Favourite necklace ever. I really do regret not buying every single one in the (Wizard of Oz) collection at the time.

I have worn this skirt on here before, I think, and it is a total BITCH to iron, which is why it still looks pretty creased as I gave up quite quickly. It had some round, dark blue, plasticy-looking buttons on it which I really wasn't too keen on, so the other day on a whim I changed them for these white, pearly ones which I think are much nicer!

Cardigan - ebay, tshirt - The Beatles Store, skirt - H&M (I changed the buttons), tights - Primark, lace shorts - ebay, necklace - Affleck's Palace, badge - Etsy.

No make-up face, as per. Also my roots look bigger & darker here than they do in real life, I have no idea why that would be!

1. I have decided I'm going to post a little less on this blog. Not that I'm stopping, not at all! I just want to focus on posting more clothes/fashiony things, rather than posting something, anything, just because I feel I have to. Also, this will give me a bit more time to post about things that I really want to, so don't despair!

2. I am going to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight! Sadly it's just a screening of the film, not a theatre production but I am so excited! I am going as Janet (of course) and my friend Alix is going as Magenta. Hopefully I will take some pictures of my outfit for you guys (:

3. I am going to London for five days on Thursday, which is going to be so good! I'm not sure what we're going to do, but I know I've got quite a long list of places I want to go and galleries I want to visit. Also, I really want to go to the Rookie meet up at Hyde Park! Let me know if you're going!

4. My mind has been on a few other things lately. Sometimes it is very difficult to stand up to someone and make them see that something they have said or done has hurt, upset or angered you. It is especially difficult when you tell them that, and they throw it back in your face without listening, or really taking any of it in. Standing up for my rights as a woman is something I feel incredibly strongly about, especially my rights over my own body, and hearing someone close to me express a sexist, misogynistic view has hit me like a freight train. I would not take that from my father, or from a stranger on the streets, so why should I lie down and take it from someone who I chose to be in my life? This has definitely left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and a panic attack-inducing Twitter timeline. But, rest assured, I am currently bouncing back.

i need a job, so i want to be a paperback writer

this is just going to be a quick post today, as i really can't think of much to say that wouldn't consist of incoherent rambling. hopefully i will have more to say later in the week.

a while ago (possibly for my last birthday), my mum bought me a voucher for a website which lets you customise a pair of shoes online by using different colours and/or adding pictures.

it took me a while to get round to designing my pair, as i was pretty unsure of what i wanted them to look like. in the end, i settled on a beatles picture. big surprise i know, but how could i not?

the shoes themselves look quite similar to converses & they are pretty comfy, only i need to buy some longer laces because i can barely fit the shoes on as the laces they have now make them too tight.

i left the rest of the shoes white because i wanted to be able to write things on them, although the material is a little tougher than i thought so i may have to sew onto them - challenge & a half.

i haven't worn these out yet, as i'm quite unsure what to put them with. i may take them on the art trip to london, as i need some comfortable shoes for walking (and because i have flat feet this is often difficult).

possibly one of my favourite pictures of the beatles, they were just so cute in the early years!

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i have had this blog for about two years now, & i think it's gone through quite a few changes, both in subject matter & in appearance. i feel like my confidence has grown slightly, both on this blog and in real life. i love writing & documenting my thoughts on here, but sometimes i feel it's slightly lacking. so, i was wondering if i could ask you, my darling followers, the kind of things you enjoy reading about on here & if you have any suggestions for  me to improve or enhance the content.

what do you like to read? or, what would you like to see more of?

• outfit posts
• recent purchases (jewellery, clothing, other things)
• artwork and other projects (like dressmaking or jewellery i have made)
• text posts about my life
• inspiration (about clothing, artwork, or people i find inspirational)
• music i love
• photographs from parties, holidays, trips or gatherings with friends
• other things (if you could specify, that would be lovely)

if you would make your thoughts known in the comments, that would be greatly appreciated. if you don't wish to, that is perfectly fine & i am sorry if you find this irritating, i honestly just don't want to get stuck in a rut.

obviously i intend to keep the content as honest as possible, so if there are things suggested that i just don't think are "me", i won't write about them as i don't want anything here to be false and untrue to who i am.

hopefully this exercise will bring me inspiration, and possibly more energy for thoughts from another kook, as often i am put off from posting things in case people will find them dull.

yours sincerely, the humble writer.

i'm only sleeping

everybody seems to think i'm lazy, i don't mind, i think they're crazy,

running everywhere at such a speed, 'til they find, there's no need.

please don't spoil my day, i'm miles away, and after all i'm only sleeping.

i have a lot of love for this song today, the lyrics always seem to strike a chord with me but today they seem especially relevant. today i feel an overwhelming urge to sleep for a long, long, long time (hands up if you spotted the beatles reference) and not have to worry about the consequences. today i just want to be lazy without feeling guilty.

for christmas this year i was given a new look voucher, with which i have bought a pair of shorts. not really in keeping with this wintry weather, but i've never been one to conform to seasonal clothing stereotypes. i have a strange hatred for wearing trousers & shorts are about as close as i can get.

i've been feeling a bit exasperated today (with myself, with others, with several chain stores), so i felt i would pair the shorts with my favourite beatles tshirt, as i always turn to the music of the beatles for solace.

i feel extremely british in this outfit, must be the bowler hat and the british invasion colours.

a closer look at the pattern on the shorts, blue & red cherries with navy blue or black (i literally cannot tell) polka dots;

tshirt - gift, shorts - new look, hat - topshop

the school art trip to london is in about a month's time (and two weeks after my birthday), so i am trying to plan what to wear for the trip. it has to be practical, durable, warm & easy to pack. i highly doubt i will keep to any of that criteria.

personal statement

hello there people, it's been a while hasn't it? remember that camera situation i kept waffling on about? well, it is still unresolved. bah. i'm on the verge of mass homicide with this camera-fixy company, i tell you. here are some thoroughly random & probably uninteresting facts about the events from my life since i've been away.

i bought the john lennon birthday issue of Q magazine (yes, i buy magazines aimed at men, do not adjust your screen) which is the loooooveliest thing ever. it was a damn good issue, even if there was too much yoko & not enough paul. oh, and bono from u2's handwriting is abysmal.

fyi, it's john's birthday this saturday so if you follow me on tumblr or twitter be prepared for some serious hyperbole about that man.

oh oh oh! aaand on sunday, i'm going to be helping out at the afforable vintage fair in newcastle for dolls & molls, which should be pretty lovely! if you're in the area, come check it out, it's always really good - even just to have a look around! i don't have a definite plan for what i'm going to look for, but i'd like to get a nice cardigan or jumper as they're a bit lacking in my wardrobe. i'm also looking out for a nice cross body bag for school, & of course the jewellery is always work a look!

sorry for such a short post this time, i hope to make up for it soon with all the giveaway shebang. adieu mes enfants! (:

feel alright

while in london, i visited the british music experience gallery at the o2, as i mentioned before. in the mid-60s gallery, there was (of course) lots of beatles stuff there that i was completely in awe of - ringo's suit, george's guitar etc - but one item i was really in love with was a dress worn by an usherette at the premiere of the beatles' 1964 film, a hard day's night.

unfortunately, photography wasn't allowed in the exhibition (although i was going to take some super sneaky photos but i was scared in case they had cctv & threw me out. yeah, rebellious) so you'll have to make do with the pictures i found on google.

see, isn't it amazing? the one in the gallery was actually blue, but this is pretty much what it looked like. this picture linked to a website where it looked like you could actually buy the dress, but it was sold out sadly!

this is sort of the closest i could get to finding the blue one on the internet...

yeah, i know it's on a freaking sindy doll, but what can you do? her eyes really scare me actually.

i would really love to own this dress, so either i'll be stalking ebay & google & many beatle devoted websites to find it, or i may try & make my own! which could be ambitious, but let's see how it goes.

yes we're going to a party party

good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening!

i finally have my laptop back & running reasonably well, so now i can catch up with the posts i've been planning for a couple days. my mum's friend heard that i'm a pretty big sixties nerd, so she passed on a few things she thought i might like.

and, oh boy, do i like them.

a twiggy dress-up book (probably for ten year oldish girls from the sixties, but i can pretend) & a beatles programme from when she went to see the band in 1965!

the book has lots of lovely cut outs of clothes i wouldn't have minded owning myself - like that freakin' awesome pink suit-dress-thing.

the beatles programme is one of the loveliest things i have ever come across - it really means so much to me that i can actually own things like this. my parents & grandparents weren't big beatles fans, so the only way i can find out about them is to go looking myself & often the real stuff is far too expensive for my humble pockets. 'cause, i don't know if you've noticed, but stuff from these guys is in pretty high demand.

anyway, it's full of loads of black & white photographs of the boys & my mum's friend even included her actual ticket. squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal!

i'm only 45 years late, sigh.

aaaaaand the programme came with some mini posters of the boys themselves! (although none of them but george look all that happy)

today is actually paul mccartney's 68th birthday (and the birthday of a good friend of mine too!), so happy happy birthday paul, i've got my playlist of beatle lovelyness on in your honour (:

keep calm & imagine peace.

my exams finished today!

i am so so so incredibly pleased they are over, and psychology wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it was going to be this morning!

at first i wasn't quite sure what to do with myself - i haven't had a day when i didn't have work to do in months! tomorrow is going to be a complete skive day; i'm going to watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, nowhere boy and gilmore girls while eating loads of kettle chips & sweets. then i'm going to experiment with curling my hair while listening to billie holiday, she & him and belle & sebastian on spotify (which i am now completely addicted to!).

then hopefully on saturday my friends & i will be off shopping in town - which i have not done since march!

i can honestly sign this post off with a smile, and hope if you have exams, they go as well as you would like (:

here are some lovely inspiring pictures that cheered me up while i was (meant to be) revising.

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i need that bag in my life, so much.

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i absolutely love this print! i used to be such a huge elvis fan, if anybody knows where this is from pleeease let me know!

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n'awww. the beatles were the original bromantics.

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my new mantra.

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i love zooey deschanel, so much. and i need to find myself a pair of those glasses.

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it's been a hard day's night.

try a hard day's week ringo! i have two exams out of the way now & only one to go. i just can't wait 'til they're over - and neither can you probably, as you'll be sick to death of hearing me blabber on about them! my english literature paper went quite well today, i managed to make use of the wider reading texts i knew the best, although the poetry section was a bit iffy i'm hoping i've done well. fingers crossed to the max over here.

last weekend my beatles dvds i ordered arrived, which made me so unbelievably ridiculously happy!

even though i accidentally ordered the wrong one because my eyes skipped straight to the low price on amazon, instead of the item description. never making that mistake again!

a hard day's night!

i was actually quite ashamed that i had never since this before saturday, seeing as i'm supposed to this big beatles fan and all. it is now quite firmly in my top ten favourite films of all time list (which is a pretty big deal, let me tell you) not just because it features my boys john paul george & ringo, but because it's so cute, so funny, and so beautiful. people don't tend to know this, but this film actually kind of changed cinema. it was quite revolutionary in its time, as it didn't have much of a storyline, was quite surreal & featured a lot of improvised filming. thanks to richard lester (the director), this kind of thing has become quite normal in our culture. in fact, many of the films i love have this kind of structure.

this is the dvd i ordered incorrectly. i thought it was the beatles' film a magical mystery tour, but it's actually a documentary about the making of their album of the same name. i love beatles documentaries, don't get me wrong, but it was still kind of disappointing as i wanted to see the psychedelic madness of their bus based adventures.

i'm not quite sure what to with this dvd, as it was only £4 i may as well watch it & keep it instead of sending it back. i may sell it/donate it to charity at some point, i'm undecided.

these two are joining my (ever growing, but still quite small) collection of beatles related dvds. so far i have nowhere boy;

a film which i adore, even if it isn't completely accurate. i just love the soundtrack, and the direction. i think i read somewhere that sam taylor-wood had a different colour palette for each of the main characters, which really shows when you watch it back. i love little details like that. also, it makes me so very happy to know that i have been to the places where it was filmed - including lennon's house!

my mother bought nowhere boy for me, and it came with this little photo book! it's so cute, and it has little biographies of the main actors which is pretty cool - even though i think poor thomas brodie sangster (who plays paul mccartney in the film) has been slightly shortchanged as his biography is only 3 lines.

one of my favourite photos in the book; the "nowhere boys" rehearsing their songs for the film. those 3 with the guitars play paul, george & john respectively.

i hope to be getting back to posting more regularly by the end of this week, i'll have more free time (hopefully!) and more things planned.

thank you all for bearing with me! and hello to my new follower (:

you can leave your hat on

so yesterday, i got my haircut. i'm not entirely sure how i feel about it yet, i like it straight (which my hair never is on a day to day basis) but curly? i think it may be too short.

excuse the hideous eye bags here, i hate taking pictures of my face.

see, i like the fringe pinned back... but it just won't stay that way when curly.

my hair is very uncontrollable, i have a double crown thing & a weird hairline where it just grows UP so yeah, goodbye side fringe.

it does make me feel oddly british though, which is a little strange. i think in some ways it reminds me of this lovely lady;

(although less wonderful, obviously)

& is a bit like a female version of these boys' hairstyles;

but perhaps this is just me wishful thinking!

i do like it straight i must admit, i tried it out with my bowler hat & felt unbelieeeeeeeeeevably english - which is odd, as i've always felt more in touch with my scottish roots than my english ones.

possibly acceptable?

oh, and that necklace is made from the brooch i posted about a couple days ago. mother said it was a bit "twee" but i like it (:

it's only rock & roll

i went to the beach yesterday which was grrrrreat. i'll post a few pictures later maybe, i didn't take my camera so i'll have to steal everybody else's photos!

we did a bit of shopping in town as well, & i bought a little bit more than i meant to.

i am finally the owner of abbey road on vinyl, this makes me very very happy.

i just love this record so much, i listened to it today & it honestly just sounds better on a record player. the sound is deeper somehow, i don't know how to describe it.

i think the artwork is beautiful too. so simple, but just lovely. i love the sense of humour in it too, the girl walking past covering the oh-so-secret postcode.

continuing the music-y theme of my purchases, i also bought the laura marling NME. i don't normally buy it, but i had to seeing as laura was on the front. i actually found it really interesting reading about different musicians' takes on the music industry (apart from rihanna, seriously, just stop talking).

another spur of the moment purchase was this quite lovely straw boater from primark (yes, primark. i know, i know). i don't really like the black band it has, i think i may replace it with a more colourful ribbon because, well, i like colour. and also because it'll make it look less primark-y.

i got this rolling stones tshirt in the post yesterday, it was 99p from drink tea be content's ebay.

i really love it, it has such cute sleeves!

love the sewn on rolling stones logo!

i love the worn-ness of the tshirt, you can only really get that genuine vintage look (even if it's not vintage!) from ebay, or by thrifting. i also adorrre the obscure design.

i apologise for the image heavy post today, but i had much news to share (:

oh, and thank you to amber of error for my award, it is very very appreciated dear!

gentlemen take polaroids

i recently discovered poladroid from someone's blog, & i am beyond obsessed.

basically, you download the software, drag your picture over to the polaroid camera, wait a few moments & you can see it develop on your screen. it has totally realistic polaroid-y sounds, & you can even shake the photo to make it develop faster.

it seriously produces some awesome results & you can set how dark or "vignetted" you want it to be. these are some of my favourites.

my beatles rubber soul record.

inside the eden project, where i went a bit photographer crazy.

hallowe'en cupcake. YUM.

one of the necklaces i made.

one of the photos i got my brother to take for my art exam (you can faintly see his reflection just above my left ear).

necklace i made, with the wooden piece my friend joanna made me.

imagine, the beatles story museum in liverpool.

the beatles sheet music in the hard day's night hotel.
okay, i just realised a lot of these are beatle related. i do apologise, but the obsession must continue!